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ST. PAUL, Minn. The NHL's No. 1 penalty kill did it again. On a night the sluggish Wild looked very much like a team that played the night before, the Wild's power-play extinguishers hopped the boards and once again performed admirably. Behind the brilliant goaltending of Devan Dubnyk, one well-placed stick by defenseman Jonas Brodin and a lot of hard work by many others, the penalty kill kept the Wild from crumbling Saturday night and lifted the Wild to a fifth consecutive victory. Nino Niederreiter and Mikko Koivu each scored two goals and Dubnyk made 31 saves as the Wild took a 4-1 win from the Los Angeles Kings and overtook the Chicago Blackhawks for third in the Central...

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ST. PAUL, Minn. The NHL's No. 1 penalty kill did it again. On a night the sluggish Wild looked very much like a team that played the night before, the Wild's power-play extinguishers hopped the boards and once again performed admirably. Behind...

TORONTO As successful as the Wild has been on the road since Devan Dubnyk arrived in Minnesota in January, it's not like the Wild keeps strutting into arenas and trouncing its opponents. The Wild has grinded out road win after road win this second...

ST. PAUL, Minn. If the Wild and St. Louis Blues will indeed be a first-round matchup, the Wild should have confidence. Against a rugged team that the Wild have struggled against the past number of seasons, the Wild beat the Blues for the second time...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. Three weeks ago, the Wild beat the Nashville Predators in a fast-paced game inside a building that was almost impenetrable to the entire NHL. That triggered a 2-8 tailspin for the league's best team. Tuesday night, the Predators...

MINNEAPOLIS The old saying goes, "If you want to be the best, you've got to beat the best," and the Minnesota Wild will have to do its share of that this final month of the season. Friday the 13th began a hellacious schedule for the Wild...

ST. PAUL, Minn. A gentleman and a scholar, Devan Dubnyk has a way of making things sound so simple. The former Canadian Hockey League Scholastic Player of the Year can dissect every facet of a defensive-zone coverage or describe every aspect of a...

RALEIGH, N.C. Back in the Twin Cities, a big debate amongst hockey fans Friday was whether it was time to rest Devan Dubnyk and sneak Darcy Kuemper into his first NHL start since Jan. 6. If Dubnyk keeps playing like this, there may never come a...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The World Cup of Hockey will be making a long-awaited return in 2016.
The tournament will feature eight teams with the games played in Toronto before NHL training camps open in September.
NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and NHL...

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The Penguins said that Crosby will be monitored daily but expect him to be through the infectious period by Monday.
Crosby has been ruled out of...

It's getting to be routine for defenseman Drew Doughty to play 30 minutes a game.
The absence of Slava Voynov (suspended) and Alec Martinez (finger surgery) has contributed to pushing Doughty's average ice time up to 28 minutes and 58 seconds, slightly...

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Pacific Division
1. KINGS
2013-14: 46-28-8 (100 points), 3rd.
Coach Darryl Sutter wants more from the kids, and wingers Tyler Toffoli and Tanner Pearson look ready to deliver. Sutter also will have a full season of...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Brent Seabrook fired the puck around the boards where it struck a stanchion and wobbled into the slot.
Blackhawks teammate Peter Regin, engaged in battle with the Wild's Ryan Suter, skated over the rubber disc and for a brief moment,...

Bob Suter, a defenseman on the 1980 Miracle on Ice team that stunningly won the Olympic gold medal in hockey, died of an apparent heart attack on Tuesday at age 57 in Madison, Wis.
Suter played in all seven games during the U.S. team's improbable run...

When did the NHL sell the rights to playoff games to C-SPAN?
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The...

Long before they had heard of Sochi, well before they made it to the NHL, the five men who comprise the leadership group of the U.S. Olympic hockey team crossed paths many times on many rinks.
Fearless winger Dustin Brown grew up playing on B-level teams...

SOCHI, Russia — Canada has an unequaled group of centers. Sweden, though depleted up front by injuries, has fine goaltending. Finland boasts an unshakable team ethic that clicks in whenever its players reunite. And Russia, blessed with enormous skill,...

As a child, Minnesota Wild defenseman Ryan Suter didn't hear many stories about his father, Bob, winning a gold medal as a member of the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team.
"Every teacher that I had, they were telling me all about it and wanted me to...

SOCHI, Russia — The team that bulldozed its way through the Sochi Olympic hockey tournament while averaging five goals a game exited the semifinals meekly, unable to score once.
Team USA's speed was neutralized and its in-your-face attitude pushed...

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SOCHI, Russia — In a rare instance of a game exceeding its advance billing, Team USA and Team Russia battled hard and evenly through 65 deliciously tense minutes before T.J. Oshie scored the deciding shootout tally in the eighth round of the tiebreaking...